and she noted a piece of sticking-plaster on his cheek.

The sheriff stood at the open window; he wore ruffles, and a dainty breastpin decorated the front of his shirt; he was neatly shaven, and a tiny little strip of sticking-plaster covered the little cut he had given himself during the process.

As though to complete the sad disorder of his appearance, he discovered, upon passing his hand over his countenance, that his beard and hair had started a bristling growth, and that the lump on his crownwhich was even yet as big as a walnut was still patched with pieces of dirty sticking-plaster.

We gave him some sticking-plaster to do it up with.

From railways and corn-stores down to slate-pencils, coffins, and sticking-plaster, everything is tending to fall under the power of a Trust.

The next day Desglands appeared with a large piece of black sticking-plaster upon his right cheek.

"His head is done up with sticking-plaster.

The snail without wings, feet, or thread, adheres to a stalk by a provision of sticking-plaster.

When he was only a little over three years old, I found him carefully mending some windfall robins' eggs, cracked by their tumble, with bits of rubber sticking-plaster, then putting them hopefully back into the nest, with an admonition to the anxious parents to "sit very still and don't stwatch."

"Especially one who has been in the habit of living on raisins and sticking-plaster," said Bolton with a grin.

" "That accounts for the supply of tobacco and sticking-plaster we found in the bear's stomach," remarked Fred, laughing.

"Oh, I am so sorry!" One of the shots had grazed the skin and made a nasty cut, which was plastered up with sticking-plaster and clumsily tied with a handkerchief.

The other day at Kempford Races, in a no-sleeved coatee with a black sticking-plaster racehorse in full gallop on her upper arm, she attracted plenty of attention and had two offers, I hear.

"Give us plenty of light, Frowenfeld," said the doctor, "and a chair and some lint, and some Castile soap, and some towels and sticking-plaster, and anything else you can think of.